Thomas Sowell Vs Noam Chomsky On The New Deal

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[johnchambers]

Read about Roosevelt's NRA (National Recovery Act) where under Hugh Johnson everything was mandated by the state, from what you could buy, to how much you could charge or pay, all the way to what you could eat; the working class was no longer the "slaves" of management, they became enslaved to the state.

[mogar]

You always find free cheese in a mouse trap.

[davidyetter]

My grandmother told me these truths 60 years ago. However, in the schools it wasn't taught this way. She said the history books lied... I was young and thought she was wrong... Boy was I ever wrong about that.

[boblaine]

It is important to note Chomsky's oration about the working class. First, he calls them slaves to management and secondly, he says there needs to be an uprising where the worker casts out the owners and becomes the owner(through force), and lastly he says the violence of the worker revolt in the 1920s in the US was unique. On his point, workers are not slaves to management in a free society. You don't have to work there. You negotiate a wage for a set amount of work. Secondly, our society is based on ideas and the worker is free to leave if they have an idea and wish to start their own company. Most workers don't know anything about their industry and can't run the business.(Many owners don't have the expertise either). And thirdly, the violence in the labor issues in America were not unique. ANY research into history and you can see the labor movement in Europe was not non-violent. Great Britain and France are two very easily researched examples. Like Sowell, I am amazed at how much money Chomsky has made in his devoit Marxist existence in the evil capitalistic society we live in.

[uchihadabba]

When I was in college I had to read Chomsky and was impressed by his writing and use of compound complex sentences. Very difficult to understand. Now that I am older, having raised my children, paid my bills, and taxes all of my life, I realize he is full of crap.

[brandtedgar]

I remember when I was in school, I was amazed at how every teacher praised FDR for his leadership in office. It did not make any sense to me. All of his policies hindered the economy big time and prolonged the Great Depression. Ontop of that he was a very bigoted man towards ethnic groups of America that may appear to resemble USA's enemies overseas at the time. It is amazing how historians are hardly critical about FDR after his presidency. One of the reasons why USA got out of the great depression is because a lot of the countries in the eastern hemisphere were badly wounded from the war and Europe's economy was not doing so great during and after the war so America was able to provide their needs for the market and more.

[adamwatson]

I work in a manufacturing plant and the last thing I want is my co workers running the place and I am positive they do not want me running it either.

[jackjones]

"In politics it's not what the facts are, it's what people believe." Thomas Sowell
This is why an objective media and informed, morally upstanding populace are requirements for a truly free society. Our founders got it right.

[vladimpaler]

You must prevent people from learning accurate history so you can talk them into repeating it.

[JohnHoulgate]

One of the great misconceptions about the end of the Great Depression is that the war ended it. The war may have ended the New Deal programs, but people still lived in Depression-like conditions. Wages remained stagnant. Men who made up the core of the nation's workforce went off to fight in the war, so they weren't at stateside to rebuild the nation's economy. People still had to contend with Depression era scarcities. The difference was, the people had more certainty and a sense of purpose, which was to win the war. The Great Depression didn't actually end until 1947-48 after the war taxes were cut. The war had been over for a couple of years and all the economic markers like employment, GDP, corporate profits showed the first signs of real economic expansion and growth in the post war period. Without the war, it might not have been possible, but it was 2-3 years after the war's end that the Great Depression finally ended.

[HowItChewsToGumFeels]

"We can run it by ourselves we dont need the bosses, get rid of them"
Just say that on any college campus and get an easy round of applause.

[chuckbrooks]

Hahahahaha, loving it. Politics isn't about the facts, it's about what you can sell to the public. Paraphrasing my grandfather, who lived through the depression and ww2.

[little]

Someone should ask Mr. Chomsky, “how does running a machine to make widgets, make you qualified to run a business you didn’t build, have no equity in, and have no responsibility for?” Because the scenario he posits sounds a whole lot like theft to me!

[emmanuelboakye]

Look at the results of the policies not the policies themselves.thank you mr sowell.👍👍👍

[jasonwiggins]

Chomsky is the absolute King of knit picking data in order to fit a personal narrative.

[carpenterman]

Mr. Sowell has always been an intellectual giant. However, as he has aged, he has become a wise speaker. His articulation is astounding.

[Funknwanker]

I will go with the economist over the linguist in this case.

[scottbernard]

FDR vehemently opposed public sector unions, but Chomsky won't mention that.

[pinnacleroofing]

Noam is describing "Animal Farm." no one want to make the bread (start the factory, raise the capital, etc) but they all think they should eat the bread equally. It's been nearly a hundred years since the great depression and as far as I cant tell not one group of comrade workers has ever started a successful factory. If its so easy for the workers to start it from scratch, own and run it all - DO IT!

[Baron_Blue_Max]

It's worrisome how many students applauded Chomsky when he said the workers should take over businesses and oust the owners.